I do get the insinuation/assumption, but I am basing my observation on the strictness of their grading on a couple of friends. Two of whom routinely sub hundreds of raw cards a month, and the other two have reviewed about fifty very high-end pieces this year. I have held a couple of those reviews in hand, and even an ex grader with a conservative eye whom we all speak to said past grading regimes would likely have bumped the strongest of those review candidates, hence the vibe that things are tighter as of late. When it comes to my own cards, I am not much of a reviewer, actually, since I don't do much Registry stuff for GPA and don't sell much unless going after a big piece; I am a big fan of the card over holder philosophy (as evinced by all my lower-grade stuff
